Concerning "La vita è bella" (en. "Life is beautiful" I would just like to recall the trick used by the father to save the children in the lager: he told the children that it was all a game. This trickis not an original invention by R.Benigni, it is not his pure fantasy, but it is an adaptation of the trick used by his own father, who survived a Lager, to protect his sons from such a cruel reality after the war. In fact he used to joke with them about he terrible experience he had.